The pantheon of the Old Armenian Religion, headed by the sky father Aramazd and including Vahagn, Anahit and other deities largely inherited from or reshaped by Iranian Zoroastrian and Hellenistic Greek influence.
Facts
Attestation
Era of AttestationAttested from Armenian religion before the kingdom's conversion to Christianity in 301 CE, documented chiefly through Armenian and classical Greek and Roman sources describing the pre-Christian pantheon. 1 Correspondences & Relations
Pantheon Members
Pantheon Of
Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source Zoroastrianism in Armenia (Russell)
James R. Russell, Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Iranian Series vol. 5, 1987Russell's survey of the Armenian pantheon figures
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